Driving test question - complaint?

[Fastdruid]

pocketspring said:

If you fail your test, the examiner was rude, unhelpful, patronising, shouting, didn't explain things properly, had his fail target to meet that week etc etc.
If you pass, he/she are the best people in the world.

Nah, my bike examiner was rude, unhelpful and patronising.

Still passed me (with no minors). I've never heard anyone manage the phrase "I'm pleased to tell you you've passed" with that level of disappointment before or since.

[Pica-Pica]

QBee said:

You wouldn't be able to overtake a bike on the Menai bridge wihtout breaking the 1.5 metre rule, from that picture

That photo is just at the towers, it is like this on the central span.

[QBee]

Caddyshack said:

Fermit said:

Caddyshack said:

Isn’t the former, Fred, who is dead and it’s the latter Tony that would be swaggering about?

Tony Martin in the [for a reminder of the big news name] was the farmer who shot Fred. His cousin who lives and swaggers about is Brendon Fearon. Poor use of grammar etc, oops.

Makes sense now, thanks. I remember it being in the news but didn’t really know the outcome of it all.

This is wierd.
I now live just outside Newark. Coddington to be precise.
From 2006 to 2012 I lived in Outwell, just south of Wisbech.
Tony Martin, the infamous derelict farmer, wot lay in wait at the top of the stairs and shot Fred Dibnah (or whatever the your imp was called) lived in Emneth Hungate, the next village to mine.

The Emneth (travellers) horse fair had all of us local horse owners locking our tack in our tack rooms, and our horses in their stables.
It's the only occasion in 18 years of horse ownership that I have nearly had a horse stolen, when two travelling types tried to back my two horses into their field shelter to rope them and steal them.
What they didn't know was
1) my horses were terrified of flapping jackets ** and just ran, and wouldn't go in their field shetler if it was minus 10 and pissing down, never mind on a bright sunny Spring day and
2) my neighbour Dick was the nosiest bugger known to mankind and had spotted them, and shooed them off.

• It's strange what horses are/aren't afraid of. The same two horses, who would walk around "SLOW" painted on the road and run away in terror if someone flew a kite within half a mile of them, watched in awe as a pair of Eurofighters did vertical climbs on full afterburners immediately over their heads at 300 feet, and didn't move an inch if a seriously large JCB was digging out the ditch next to their field.

[Robertb]

QBee said:

• It's strange what horses are/aren't afraid of. The same two horses, who would walk around "SLOW" painted on the road and run away in terror if someone flew a kite within half a mile of them, watched in awe as a pair of Eurofighters did vertical climbs on full afterburners immediately over their heads at 300 feet, and didn't move an inch if a seriously large JCB was digging out the ditch next to their field.

Indeed. I have a painful memory from my riding days of being thrown from a horse which got scared of an empty crisp packet, yet moments before perfectly happy walking along a narrow road being passed by cars.

[Forester1965]

One of Mum's horses could be driven past at fairly high speed and not care at all. A black bin bag in a hedgerow and all hell would break loose.